We love it when such a cool and creative people like Warren Ellis find the 8hands concept useful and helpful.

Warren Ellis, is a sarcastic-talented British author of comics (Transmetropolitan, Global Frequency, Fell, Iron Man), novels (Crooked Little Vein), television (Dead Channel), Social media and internet (writing a column for the Suicide Girls website) and many many more. Actually the complete Warren Ellis biography is so long that even if we wanted to we couldn't list it all in one page…

It seams that in the past few years Ellis is also very interested in the social media areas and he's a member of quite a lot of social networks such as MySpace, Facebook, Last.fm, Flickr and Ning, as well as his own blog diary and many more. Therefore 8hands can fit exactly to Ellis's needs.

In his own words:

"8hands is a desktop app that monitors multiple social networks for you. I have mine watching MySpace, Flickr and Facebook Simultaneously, reporting new events and messages in real time. Could be massively useful in the long term. At least for me."

8hands is here for users with more than one profile; it will save you the time and effort and help you to monitor all your different locations from one single point.

Hopefully, Ellis will like 8hands as much as we like his work :-)

As always, we would love to hear your personal experience with 8hands, please feel free to send us your feedback to:

info (at) 8hands (dot) com

Or use one of our forums.

Cheers!

Well, nothing comes easy.

The profusion of niche social communities is quite amazing. With people having multiple social networking accounts, the efficiency of each account gets bigger and wider. At the same time, having multiple personalities forces you to keep track of too much information and starts getting too much of a hassle. That's why there's a new spirit of finding that "one place that will manage all my social life".

3 days ago Profilactic.com launched their beta site, which lets you put links to your social networks and mash up your friends' content. Profilactic supports about 30 default sites, but you can add unlimited sites of your choice, so it basically supports every site.

Thing is - you still need to check your individual page for any new updates/comments/feeds. you won't be notified on any event, or have the feeling you are experiencing a true and living community (except the new community you've just built on your Profilactic account).

Bottom line - I'm not sure if having a webpage with links to all our profiles really meets the requirements we, the social freaks, need. Obviously nothing can really replace the user experience of traveling across MySpace, finding new bloggers and so on - That's something we don't really want to replace. But if indeed people are getting tired of managing all their profiles, I say - let nature take its course. Eventually the user's necessity will bring us all towards a new networking evolution.